WEBVTT HOSPITALIZATIONS, WHICH COULD BE DUE TO THE FACT THAT FIREFIGHTERS HERE IN NEWTON HAD HELP GETTING PEOPLE OUT OF THE BUILDING. PEOPLE WERE IN BUILDING 1024 OF THE MEADOWBROOK APARTMENTS IN NEWTON, AND THEY ARE SHARING THEIR PICTURES AND VIDEO WITH US OF MEMORIAL DAY MORNING, AS PEOPLE WERE BANGING ON THEIR DOORS. >> THEY WERE KNOCKING ON DOORS EVACUATING US FROM THE BUILDING . EVERYONE WAS OUTSIDE FOR ABOUT 3 ! 1/2 HOURS. >> IT WAS NOT JUST FIREFIGHTERS KNOCKING ON DOORS TO GET PEOPLE OUT OF THE BUILDING, RICK GARRETT SAYS HE HAS LIVED HERE FOR YEARS AND DID NOT HESITATE TO HELP SPREAD THE WORD. BUT IT WAS NOT EASY TO ACCOMPLISH. >> WHEN I WENT IN THERE YESTERDAY TO TRY AND HELP THE FIREDEPARTMENT EVACUATE THE BUILDING, I WAS ON THE FIRST LEVEL. >> OH, IT WAS TERRIBLE. TO SEE SOMEBODY LOSE THEIR LIFE LIKE THAT. MARCUS: NOW WHAT THE PEOPLE LIVING HERE WANT ARE ANSWERS, INFORMATION AS THE FIRE DEPARTMENT SUSPECTS CARBON MONOXIDE CLAIMED A LIFE BUT THEY ARE WAITING FOR THE RESULTS OF AN AUTOPSY BEFORE STATING THAT AS FACT. SO THEY ARE HOPING THE CAUSE WILL BE IDENTIFIED AND REMEDIED, . IN THE MEANTIME THEY WILL REMEMBER THEIR NEIGHBOR WHO PASSED AWAY WITH WARM THOUGHTS AND A SMILE, DESCRIBING HIM AS A GENTLE MAN WITH JUST AS GENTLE A SOUL. >> HE WOULD NEVER HURT A FLY HE WASN’T LIKE THAT. HE WAS ALWAYS HAPPY THERE WAS NEVER A TIME WHEN HE WAS SAD.

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Updated: 10:07 AM CDT Jun 1, 2018

NEWTON, Iowa —

Authorities have released the name of man found dead in an apartment on Newton Monday.

Residents of Meadowbrook Apartments said a gas leak was reported Monday afternoon on East 12th Street North.

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Newton fire fighters reported a high level of carbon monoxide gas throughout the apartment complex and evacuated residents from the building.

A resident was found dead in his apartment. He was identified Friday as Melvin Boyd, age 30.

Autopsy results from the Medical Examiner’s Office are pending. Emergency responders encountered a high level of carbon monoxide inside the apartment.